Job Title: Enterprise Cloud & Infrastructure Architect
Location: Fairfax, VA
Type: Contract, multi-year expected
Work Model: Hybrid – onsite and remote
Responsibilities
* Serve as the primary architecture lead for major infrastructure transitions, facility move-outs, workload migrations, and enterprise modernization initiatives.
* Assess current-state infrastructure, identify capacity and capability gaps, and develop target-state architecture recommendations.
* Develop cloud adoption, migration, and modernization roadmaps supporting an Azure-first strategy while leveraging AWS where appropriate.
* Evaluate enterprise storage environments and develop recommendations for future-state storage architecture and capacity planning.
* Assess hardware and software lifecycle management processes and help develop modernization strategies and roadmaps.
* Lead archive, retention, and storage optimization assessments and proof-of-concept initiatives.
* Partner with desktop engineering and workplace technology teams to define modern endpoint management architectures and workplace modernization strategies.
* Develop architecture recommendations for endpoint security, device management, and hybrid-workplace capabilities.
* Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to assess and modernize critical communication services, including messaging platforms, contact center technologies, paging, notification, and alerting systems.
* Establish and evolve enterprise cloud governance frameworks, including landing-zone architecture, subscription and account-management strategies, infrastructure-as-Code standards and patterns, and cloud architecture guardrails and governance controls.
* Prepare architecture recommendations and supporting materials for Architecture Review Board (ARB) discussions and governance reviews.
* Facilitate workshops with agencies and technical teams to gather requirements, identify constraints, and translate business needs into architecture recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
* Develop architecture artifacts, assessments, target-state designs, standards, governance documentation, and strategic roadmaps.
Requirements
* 10+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, or Systems Engineering.
* Demonstrated experience designing and assessing enterprise cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
* Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure (Primary), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Migration and Modernization, Storage and Capacity Planning, Endpoint Management and Workplace Modernization, Enterprise Communications Platforms, Technology Governance and Architecture Review Processes, Infrastructure-as-Code Concepts and Standards.
* Experience conducting architecture assessments and developing target-state architecture roadmaps.
* Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and executive communication skills.
* Preferred: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
* Preferred: TOGAF certification.
* Preferred: Experience supporting state, local, or federal government organizations.
* Preferred: Experience participating in Architecture Review Boards.
* Preferred: Experience with Microsoft 365, enterprise collaboration platforms, endpoint security, and hybrid-cloud environments.
